Clarion 1933-05-10 Vol 12 No 09

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Volume XII BETHEL INSTITUTE, ST. PAUL, MINN. MAY 10, 1933
Clarion Staff Plans
Large Feature Edition
Supplement to Final Issue Will
Show Pictures of Seniors and of
Representative Organizations
An innovation in school publications
is being planned by the Clarion staff
to take the place of the Bethannual,
which for financial reasons could not
be published this year. A twelve or
sixteen page "rotogravure" supple-ment
will feature individual pictures
of the graduating students, and group
pictures of all under classes and of all
representative organizations, such as
the Student and Religious Councils,
Male Chorus, baseball and basketball
teams, debaters, and publication staff.
According to the reports from the
staff, a very attractive edition is be-ing.
planned. The pictures, although
they will be more in the newspaper
style, will be even larger and clearer,
as a whole, than those that have ap-peared
in the Bethannuals.
In order to cover overhead expenses,
which approach $300, each under-graduate
is contributing thirty-five
cents, while seniors pay fifty cents.
The school administration, which is
enthusiastic over the project. realizing
that it will serve as good advertising
for Bethel, is contributing largely to
help cover the expenses. "This will
create a sensation among school news-papers,"
said Dean Danielson, when
the plans were laid before him.
The supplement will be issued free
to all subscribers and will be sold for
the nominal price of fifteen cents a
cony to all others.
Senior Class Entertainment
Features "The Two Suns"
by English Instructor
NEGRO MALE QUARTET WILL
PROVIDE MUSICAL NUMBERS
A dialogue, "The Two Suns", writ-ten
by Professor H. C. Wingblade, will
be the main feature of the Senior
Class program which will be given on
Friday evening, May 12, in the Acad-emy
auditorium. The colored quartet
from Bethesda Baptist Church will
give special numbers and this is not
all.
The Seniors want to see all of their
friends at this entertainment. The
proceeds will be used in the purchase
of a gift for the school.
ACADEMY SENIORS GUESTS AT
JR. COLLEGE CLUB MAY PARTY
The Seniors of the Academy were
the guests of the Junior College Club
at a May party a week ago Monday
night given in the Junior College-
Academy chapel which was attractive-ly
decorated to represent a garden.
After an interesting program fea-turing
Miss Meriam Swanson, con-tralto,
and Prof. H. C. Wingblade,
principal speaker, those present had a
–ay time around the May pole which
created much interest because of its
novelty in Bethel.
SEMINARY AND B. AND
M. T. S. ANNOUNCE
VALEDICTORIANS
Walter Margaret
Watkin Anderson
Walter Watkin and Margaret
Anderson Gain Class Honors
Walter Watkin was pronounced
Valedictorian of the class graduating
from the Seminary this year. Walter
graduated from the Academy in the
spring of 1930. He has been active
in the Glee Club and other organiza-tions
of the school till he accepted the
pastorate at Grove City where his
time is now taken up in the interests
of his church.
The highest place in the Senior
Class of the Bible and Missionary
Training Department was won by
Margaret Anderson. Margaret is
president of her class, and in that
capacity has served this year on the
Seminary and B. & M. T. Student
Council. Walter also, is president of
his class and has filled the position of
Chairman of the Seminary Student
Council.
JOINT STUDENT COUNCILS
MAKE APPOINTMENTS TO
FILL STAFF POSITIONS
David Guston Elected
New Editor-in-Chief
BUSINESS STAFF CONTINUES
THROUGH NEXT SEMESTER
Appointments to fill positions on
next year's staff of the Clarion were
made last Friday at a joint meeting
of the Seminary-B. and M. T. and the
Academy-Jr. College Student Councils,
as follows: David Guston, Editor-in-
Chief; Jack Anderson, Seminary Edi-tor;
Leonard Turnquist, Jr. College;
Lois Magnuson, Academy; L a u r a
Moss, B. and M. T.; Donald Clover,
Advertising Manager; and V i r g i 1
Olson, Assistant Advertising Manager.
The position as Associate Editor
will be retained by Gertrude Liljegren
and that of Sports Editor by Andy
Boylan.
Business Staff to Change in Mid-Year
Acting upon recommendation from
the present editorial staff, the Councils
decided to have the business staff con-tinue
each year until the middle of the
school term. In this way the entire
staff will not be changed at the same
time, and consequently will not face
the problems of the year without ex-perienced
help.
However, because of the limit to be
placed upon extra-curricular participa-tion
next year, Donald Peterson was
unable to continue his position as Ad-vertising
Manager. The rest of the
business staff with Sam Wessman as
manager, and Ruth Johnson as Circu-lation
Manager with Franklin Nelson,
Assistant, will continue until the end
of the first semester next year.
English Professor Ordained
Central Baptist
Church Offici-ally
Sets Seal
Upon the Pub-lic
Ministry of
H. C. Wing-blade
Prof H. C.
Wingblade'susu-al
conciseness and
comprehensive-ness
marked his
statements at the
ordination service
held Friday, Apr. Prof. H. C. Wingblade
28, at the Central Baptist Church.
Mr. Wingblade was presented by
the Rev. Eric Anderson, pastor of the
church, after which Dr. Hagstrom,
moderator, called upon the candidate
to relate his call to the ministry.
Converted at the age of nine, he
was baptized at the age of seventeen
at the stroke of midnight in the Swed-
Baptist Church at Topeka, Kan-sas.
From then on he was active in
church work, serving as Young Peo-ple's
president, Sunday-school teacher,
choir director, and usher.
While at college, he was invited to
preach by one of his college profes-sors,
but he refused at the time to do
so. "Yet every time I heard my pastor
preach, I felt deep, in my heart that
that was what I wanted to do."
After Prof. Wingblade came to
Bethel as teacher, Dr. Gordh sent him
out to preach. Ever since then, he
has been busy in the Lord's service
preaching the unsearchable riches of
Christ.
Before he began his doctrinal state-ment,
Mr. Wingblade paid a beautiful
tribute to his mother, saying, "The
observance of the family altar was a
daily occurrence in our home, and
mother showed us the way of salva-tion."
The council, after hearing the candi-date's
presentation, highly recom-mended
his ordination. Dr. Hagstrom,
at the evening service, delivered the
ordination sermon.
BETHEL'S PROSPECTS
HOPEFUL, DR. HAGSTROM
DECLARES
Speaks to Large Group of Young
People at May Day Festivity
"Although financial prospects are
not altogether encouraging for our
school, I really think Bethel's finances
are in better shape than most Chris-tian
institutions of which I know," de-clared
Dr. Hagstrom last Friday after-noon
upon his return from a week's
visit to Chicago, where he attended
the monthly meeting of the Mission-ary
Department of the General Con-ference
of which he is executive secre-tary.
Besides fulfilling several executive
engagements, Dr. Hagstrom spoke in
the Swedish language to a large group
of young people who had met for a
semi-patriotic festivity after the old
Swedish custom, commemorating
"Valborgsmassa" or May Day.
Dr. Hagstrom also released some in-teresting
statistics, not previously
published, concerning the Swedish
Baptist Conference, which made a net
gain in membership of 568 during the
year closing December 31, 1932. The
total membership is now 35,176, the
highest in the history of the Confer-ence.
Total receipts for religious pur-poses
during the year amounted to
$861,190.33, or $24.20 per capita.
MAYOR ANDERSON GIVES
INSPIRING ADDRESS
Present Crisis of Christian
Education Analyzed
by Dr. Ray York
Messages by Mayor Anderson and
Dr. Ray York and special vocal num-bers.
by Prof. Floyd Jones were the
special features on the Annual Visi-tor's
Day program, last Saturday,
May 6. Large crowds attended the
meetings.
Mayor Anderson of Minneapolis,
staunch Christian political leader,
gave a brief but inspiring address in
the afternoon. He said in effect, "We
live in strenuous times. No genera-tion
has seen its counterpart." The
Mayor said he opposed the beer bill
because as a member of the bar asso-ciation
and as mayor of a city he had
taken an oath to uphold the constitu-tion
of our country.
The keynote of his speech was—"Men
of convictions that are founded upon
principles is the great need of today."
He stressed the need for people to
take a deeper interest in 'government.
"The church is the only organization
that upholds the fundamentals of the
Christian faith. Are we to gird up
our loins or sit idly by and watch the
destructive forces tear down our gov-ernment
and civilization ?" He was
accorded a hearty ovation as he left
the platform.
Dr. York Speaks at Evening Gathering
A group of tenor solos was given by
Prof. Floyd Jones of the Minnesota
Bible University, at the opening of
the evening program. His character-istic
presentation of the numbers was
gratefully received by the audience.
With bold, swift strokes, Dr. Ray
York sketched the "Present Crisis in
Christian Education" as he sees it.
First he dealt with some of the facts,
calling to the attention of his listeners
that this crisis was not brought on by
the depression; but by the "marvel-ous
mushroom growth of universal
education in our country"; by the corn-ing
of the machine age; and by edu-cation,
the child of the church, being
adopted by the state. We have today
a great state educational system de-void
of religious' instruction, and in
our modern program it is difficult to
find time for that instruction in the
home and in the church. "I am not
sure but that the present public edu-cational
system will wreck our coun-try."
The Christian College has the prob-lem
of the content of its curriculum,
it being unable to compete with State
Universities because of limited funds.
Since the purpose of the Colleeg is
the "development of mental capacity",
Dr. York believed that the Christian
College should offer only a Liberal
Arts course upon which to "grind our
minds to keenness," leaving general-izations
to the Universities. "The
Bethel Junior College is the greatest
step forward that the Swedish Bap-tists
have made since the founding
of the Seminary — but you are still
lacking two years," said Dr. York.
Then he touched upon other problems,
ending with a vision of the Swedish
Baptist denomination and its educa-tional
system ten years hence.
VISITORS' DAY ATTRACTS CROWDS
Think On These Things
By Esther Sabel
"It is not so often a whole sermon as a single short
sentence in it that wings God's arrow to a heart. It is
seldom a whole conversation that is the means of bringing
about the desired result, but some sudden turn of thought
or word, which comes with the electric touch of God's
power. Sometimes it is less than that; only a look (and
what is more momentary?) has been used by Him for the
pulling down of strongholds. Again, in our own quiet
waiting upon God, as moment after moment glides past
in the silence of His feet, the eye resting upon a page of
His Word, or only looking up to Him through the dark-ness,
have we not found that He can so irradiate one pass-ing
moment with His light that its rays never die away,
but shine on and on through days and years?
"While we have been undervaluing these fractions of
eternity, what has our gracious God been doing in them?
How strangly touching are the words. 'What is man, that
Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him. and that Thou
shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every
moment?' Terribly solemn and awful would be the
thought that He has been trying us every moment, were
it not for the yearning gentleness and love of the Father
revealed in that wonderful expression of wonder, 'What
is man, that Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him?'
Think of that ceaseless setting of His heart upon us, care-less
and forgetful children as we have been! And then
think of those other words, none the less literally true
because given under a figure: 'I, the Lord, do keep it; I
will water it every moment.' "
—Frances Ridley Havergal.
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Page Two THE BETHEL CLARION
May 10, 1933
Mrs. Anna M. Swedberg
Mrs. Anna M. Swedberg this year
completes her fifteenth year as a
member of the faculty of Bethel. She
has proved herself to be a thorough
teacher, anxious that her pupils shall
learn not only the rudiments of the
subject which they are studying, but
that they shall learn to know Him
"whom to know is life eternal", in
order that they may leave Bethel as
men and women who will be an influ-ence
for good in the world.
Mrs. Swedberg received her high
school and college training in Minne-sota.
After earning the degree of
bachelor of science, she taught in
Minnesota schools for a number of
years before her marriage. Following
the death of her husband, Mrs. Swed-berg
again took up teaching. She ac-cepted
a call to Adelphia College in
Seattle where she taught for eight
years. She was also instructor for
one year in the Seattle Pacific College.
Mrs. Swedberg has had the unusual
experience of teaching the rudiments
of English grammar, idioms, and pro-nunciation
to many foreign born stu-dents.
She has taught English not
only to those who came to Bethel
directly from Sweden, but to three
Russian girls, fugitives of the Soviet
government, as well as to Chinese
students at Adelphia College.
For about two years Mrs. Swedberg
was assistant editor of "Banneret",
forerunner of Svenska Standaret. She
is a fluent writer, and artciles from
her pen have appeared from time to
time. One of her addresses on
"Heroines" was published in booklet
form while she was at Adelphia Col-lege.
Mrs. Swedberg has ever shown her
interest in definite Christian service,
teaching Sunday school classes and
speaking at young people's and church
meetings whenever opportunity is
given. She has always been ready to
take part in the services of the many
churches she has had opportunity to
visit during the summer months, and
has conducted a number of Daily
Vacation Bible Schools and Bible In-stitutes
during the vacation.
To be alive in such an age—
To live to it,
To give to it!
What if thy lips have drunk the lees ?
Fling forth thy sorrow to the wind—
And link thy hope with human kind.
The passion of a larger claim
Will put thy puny grief to shame.
Breathe the world thought, do the
world deed,
Think hugely of thy brother's need.
And thy woe, and what thy weal?
Look to the work the times reveal!
Give thanks with all thy flaming
heart—
Crave but to have in it a part.
Give thanks and clasp thy heritage—
To be alive in such an age.
—Angela Morgan.
"We know nothing of business to-morrow;
our business is to be good
and happy today."—S. Smith.
"No flattery is so deadly as that
which we offer to ourselves."
"A person's life is just like iron;
if it is used, it becomes bright and
shiny; if it is left idle, it becomes
rusty."—H. Miller.
"Better not to be at all than not to
be noble."—Tennyson.
THE BETHEL CLARION Who's Who
Official School Paper
of Bethel Institute pub-lished
every third week
by the students.
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 N. Snelling Ave.,
St. Paul, Minn.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Albert Bergfalk Editor-in-Chief
Gertrude Liljegren Associate Editor
Andrew Boylan Sports Editor
Department Editors
Gertrude Liljegren Junior College
Leonore Nyhagen Academy
Marian Berglund . Seminary
Laura Moss Missionary Training
Reporters
Charlotte Miller Eunice Swanson Edna Lundgren
Lois Magnuson . Olav Norsted
Typists
Myrtle Nastlund Marian Berglund
BUSINESS STAFF
Clarice Wessman Business Manager
Donald Peterson Advertising Manager
Ruth Johnson Circulation Manager
Advertising Solicitors
Vern Wessman Earl Anderson Lloyd Wickstrom
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Esther Sabel Faculty Adviser
Editorial
Bethel has by popular demand of the students
revived a sport that has long been neglected at
Bethel ; namely, baseball.
As the team is composed entirely of new mate-rial,
it was expected to have a rather hard time
playing against the other more experienced teams
in the league, but Coach Ryman has been working
faithfully the last four weeks to get them into
shape for their first game which they played last
Wednesday.
Those who had an opportunity of witnessing
the game saw their team go down in defeat
against one of the veteran teams in the league.
but they also saw something else. They saw their
team from the first to the last inning play the
game with true sportsmanship.
After all, this is the real object of contests
between schools, to teach the player to win or lose
in the same gentlemanly manner. And we feel
that we are safe in saying that as long as the
team follows the policy of playing each game with
a fighting spirit and in a sportsmanlike manner,
win or lose, the student body will be solidly behind
it.
V V V V
The Palms
In our chapel this spring something of interest
is happening which has perhaps not been noticed.
We have all seen the palms that grace the plat-form
and we wish to express our appreciation to
the senior class of '32 for these beautiful plants,
which is their gift to the school.
But there is something else very interesting
which no class has given, the new sprouts on the
tops of the palms, which are gifts from God. It
is interesting to note how nature works in these
plants. First of all small buds appeared low in
the plants. These buds opened into flat growths
which became taller and taller, until they devel-oped
little sprouts or leaves. Then little by little
they have raised their tops toward the heavens ;
until now they are nearly as large as the older
leaves.
We will all be watching them grow, ever being
reminded that God works in all processes of life.
The Book Corner
By H. C. Wingblade
For the sake of a happy change, I wish to talk
this time about a book the title of which would be
FAITH BY INDUCTION. The fact of it is that the
book has not yet been published, nor indeed may it
ever be as such, but I have heard the author de-scribe
the contents of the manuscript.
It is the story of growing faith. It is an account
of answers to. prayer. It shows forth the rising tide
of continuous trust, in daily recorded form. It re-veals
how one experience with faith and prayer after
the other slowly builds up that faith until it becomes
a Gibraltar of strength almost identical with knowl-edge.
In brief, then, the author records each experience
of answers to prayer through the passing years,
which is after all the exact method that science uses
in building up important conclusions. The result of
all this recording is a long list of blessed experiences
with God. One dark day comes when all seems
black and hopeless. Faith seems sped. God does
not exist. Prayer seems altogether futile. But just
before the heart surrenders utterly to despair, the
author bethinks himself of his book. With tear-stained
eyes he gleans its pages. God has been true,
He has been faithful ninety-nine times. He will
surely be faithful in the hundredth. "I know whom
I have believed."
As I said, the book is not in print yet, nor may
it ever be. Possibly the contents are too private and
too sacred. But the beauty of it all is that you and
I can write such a book ourselves. There is a way
of building up faith by the inductive method.
Much Ado .. -15
Disrespect
Those who have learned to love Dr. Gordh and find his
Bible Course a spiritual feast have been deeply pained by
those thoughtless, selfish individuals who burst into class
several minutes late each morning, and by the persistent
buzz of conversation which gives way only when the roll
has been partly taken. The disturbance is trivial when
compared to the gross disrespect shown our beloved
teacher—a disrespect that sears deep wounds into a tender
heart. That these thoughtless people reveal a sad lack
in appreciation of spiritual values must only add to the
hurt. One finds it hard to believe in the sincerity of those
who hurt others—and in those who are not fascinated
enough by Dr. Gordh's Bible lectures to prevent tardiness
to class, especially when they live in the dormitory in the
same building.
—Pained.
Falling in Love
What an interesting subject and oh, how natural. One
of the most enjoyable phases of school life is the friend-ship
of those who become endeared to us, whether they be
boys or girls,—and very often students become very fond
of one another. This is a perfectly normal procedure and
sometimes very beautiful. These are small matters, but
meaningful, which make us attractive or repulsive to the
outside circles. However, a little bit of care, a little bit
of good taste, some aesthetic sense will make a school
courtship a thing of beauty.
—A Word to the Wise.
May 10, 1933 THE BETHEL CLARION Page Three
SPORTS
LANGUAGE CLASSES VISIT
NEW SWEDISH INSTITUTE
The Swedish classes, under the lead-ership
of Miss Alice Johnson, visited
the new American Institute of Swed-ish
Sciences, Literature, and Arts in
Minneapolis on Tuesday, April 25.
This building, erected about thirty
years ago by Swan J. Turnblad, pub-lisher
of the Svenska-Ameriksnska
Posten, at the cost of a million dollars
for his private home, was given to this
society as a center for Swedish cul-ture.
The house contains many interest-ing
features such as beautifully and
intricately carved woodwork, which
took fourteen men two years to com-plete;
"kakelugnar", a sort of enclosed
fireplace, used in Sweden years ago to
heat the rooms; and a stained glass
window which is reproduced from a
painting of "The Sack of Visby."
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Wednesday, May 10—
Baseball, Bethel at Concordia-3:30
p. m.
Oratorical Contest, Seminary Chapel
—8:00 p. m.
Wednesday, May 17—
Seminary Banquet.
Friday, May 19—
Baseball, Bethel at New Ulm.
Saturday, May 20—
Academy Junior-Senior Banquet.
Saturday, May 27—
Baseball, New Ulm at Bethel-3:30
p. m.
Athletic Banquet, 6:30 p. m.
Wednesday, May 31—
Alexis "Bible and Missionary Train-ing
evening."
Combined-choir Concert—Alliance
Tabernacle (Tentative).
Sunday, June 4—
Baccalaureate Service, Central Bap-tist
Church, 7:30 p. m. Rev. Fritz
Hamlin, Preacher.
Wednesday, June 7—
Academy Alumni Banquet.
Thursday, June 8—
Class Day.
B. and M. T. S. Alumni Fellowship
Supper-6:30 p. m.
Friday, June 9—
Graduation Exercises.
Wise and Otherwise
Prof. Nordstrom: "What is the for-mula
for water?"
Dorothy Sawyer: "HIJKLMNO."
Prof. Nordstrom : "What do you
mean?"
Dorothy: "Well, you said it was
H•0."
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Rudolph Skanse: "What is your
favorite book ?"
George Bauer: "It's always been my
bank book, but even that lacks inter-est
for me now."
Housewife (to subscription sales-man):
"No, we don't want no maga-zines.
No, we don't want no nothin'."
Salesman: "How about a cheap
grammer ?"
—o—
Spencer Merrill: "I went to a for-tune
teller and he told me I would
suffer poverty until I was fifty years
old."
Lloyd Wick str om : "And then
what?"
Spencer: "I'd be used to it."
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Clifford Dickau: "Our professor
talks to himself. Does yours ?"
Harry Selin: "Yes, but he doesn't
realize it. He thinks we're listening."
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There are many swollen hands
among the ball players lately. Since
they have cracked all the bats, every
time they swing them, it stings their
hands.
—o—
Some of the best baseball stars of
the season were seen when Koch and
Bauers collided head-on at the Luther
game.
—o—
We hope that St. Paul Luther was
impressed with the flashy new uni-forms
our infield wore.
—o—
One of the main supports on the
college team is Karl Koch of the
Academy. He pitches, catches, plays
infield position, and fills any place in
the outfield.
—o—
Our three school departments are
all represented on the team, thus mak-ing
it more of an Institute team than
any of our previous teams have been.
—o—
We were glad to see Earl Widen
playing so splendidly at short stop
after his illness.
—o—
Al Carlson, who hurt his finger in
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In Opener, 27-3
HASELY AND MYER GRANT
HOME NINE FOUR SAFETIES
By Ole Norsted
The St. Paul Luther Baseball squad
spoiled the home opening of the
Bethel Baseball Season by defeating
the Bethelites 27-3 at the home dia-mond
last Wednesday, May 31. The
fans witnessed some mighty hitting,
good and commonplace pitching, and
excellent fielding on the part of the
Luther nine. The Bethel fielding was
very poorly done, with about 14 errors.
Determined but unsuccessful rallies
by the home nine in the late innings
saved the game from total loss. With
a score of 25-0 staring them in the
face at the end of the first half of
the sixth inning, the home team push-ed
three runs over the plate on four
hits by Anderson, Bauer, Lindor and
pinch-hitter Widen.
The loose fielding in the early
innings gave Luther many unearned
runs. Luther collected eleven hits off
Holmberg in three innings, Koch
yielded seven hits in four innings.
Linder's two-base hit was the best
clout of the afternoon. Linrooth with
four hits led the Luther attack.
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Page Four THE BETHEL CLARION May 10, 1933
Editor of Denominational
Paper Speaks at Seminary
J. 0. BACKLUND GIVES TWO
LECTURES ON JOURNALISM
J. 0. Backlund, Editor-in-Chief of
the literary publications of the Swed-ish
Baptist Denomination, gave two
lectures on Journalism to students in
the Seminary chapel, Thursday and
Friday, April 20 and 21.
Thursday he outlined briefly the
history of the Conference Press from
the time of the first publication edited
by J. Alexis Edgren down to the pres-ent
enlarged system, with the press
now publishing several English papers
besides the Svenska Standaret. He
continued on Friday by explaining the
details in the mechanism of the press,
the linotype machine and the compos-ing
room. He enumerated the require-ments
of articles submitted for pub-lication
and the reasons for eliminat-ing
certain manuscripts. His helpful
suggestions were beneficial for those
who will eventually be contributors to
the literature of Swedish Baptists in
the future.
GLEE CLUB WILL VISIT
ISANTI COUNTY AND MORA
The Bethel Glee Club is planning a
week-end trip into Isanti county which
will conclude the activities for the
season. Under present arrangements
the club will sing at the Stanchfield
church on Friday night the 12th and
it is expected that a concert will be
given at North Isanti. Sunday after-noon
they will visit Mora and Sunday
evening Cambridge.
Last Thursday, May 4, the club
sang in the Lake Park Baptist church
at a concert sponsored by the men's
club.
The club this year has had a profit-able
season and all interest and sup-port
shown has been much appreci-ated.
Among the Grads
This year, 1933, marks the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the first com-mencement
of Bethel Academy. Here
is a greeting from the first principal:
"Time is a feathered thing." Twenty-five
years have gone since Bethel
Academy sent forth its first gradu-ates.
They were only two, but the
quality was good. We feel indebted
to them for their loyalty to our cause
in the days of small beginnings. Both
have been, and both are, an honor to
Bethel, and on this anniversary we
send them our greeting and bid them
Godspeed.
ARVID GORDH.
A member of the first graduating
class of two students, writes the fol-lowing:
Dear Alumnus:
It is twenty-five years or a quarter
of a century since we, Leonard Palm-quist
and myself, left Bethel. I am
sure we must feel like grand-daddies.
Still, since Old Father Time keeps
records that cannot be questioned and
at the same time is no respecter of
persons, it must be so,—a quarter of
a century since we two left.
How easily and naturally memory
glides back to the days of small be-ginnings.
One would neither despise
nor forget them. The happy days at
the Elim Church, with Logan Park as
our playground and an utter lack of
equipment of any sort. Our only ex-perimental
laboratory work was in
the basement chopping wood to feed
the furnace. On the other hand we
were given Latin and Greek in big
doses.
However, what we lacked in mate-rial
equipment was made up by a
richness of personality that made our
loss nothing but gain. Who can ever
forget the captivating presence of the
beloved pastor of the church, Rev.
V. E. Hedberg. As a matter of fact,
we were but as children taken in by
all the Twin City churches. Then,
there was the personality of one
whose very presence enriched our
lives. He moved amongst us with a
quiet, unassuming dignity, unaffected
and natural. He had that indefinable
influence of a preeminent personality
that pervades an institution by his
very presence. We left the school
back in 1908 with the feeling that our
years at Bethel, though lacking in
many material things, nevertheless
had fully rewarded us because of our
contact with him. Of course we speak
of Dr. Arvid Gordh.
Who will not recall our Literary
Society and one of our meetings at
Dr. Gordh's home ? One of our de-baters
for the first time is to make
his bow as a public speaker. He gets
up, opens his mouth, says nothing, sits
down, and "poor me" has to substi-tute.
Or when one of the students
wished to indulge in the luxury of a
Finnish steam bath and we gave him
one of snow. Or the other extreme,
when late into the night a young man
was prayed into the Kingdom. Oh,
yes, we played and we worked; we
laughed and we wept. For it all we
have become better men and women.
No regrets and no apologies for those
days of long ago.
Sincerely yours.
C. G. TIDEMAN.
Wednesday, June 7, is the day set
for the Bethel Academy Alumni Ban-quet.
As this is our Silver Anniver-sary
celebration it will be an event of
particular interest to every graduate
of Bethel. Watch for further public-ity
regarding place of meeting and
special features.
PLAN TO COME!
Congratulations to Esther Antonson
and Evelyn Skocglun, both graduates
of Bethel Academy, who are members
of the Mounds-Midway class to gradu-ate
May 12.
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon John-son
of Red Wing, Minnesota, announce
the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Ann,
born April 21.
Roger Dwight Moberg arrived at
the home of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs.
David N. Moberg of Seattle, Washing-ton
on April 22.
Thora Johnson, who has been con-fined
to the Trudeau Sanitarium for
the past two years, has now returned
to her home where she will continue
her cure. Her address is now 104
Porter Street, Providence, R. I.
Emily Satterberg is spending a few
days in and near the Twin Cities on
her way back to her field in Africa.
She has a long list of speaking en-gagements
to fill before leaving this
country, among them a request from
the American Baptist Foreign Mission
Society to speak at the meeting of
the Northern Baptist Convention at
Washington, D. C. We join in wish-ing
Miss Satterberg Godspeed.
BETHEL ACADEMY ALUMNI
BANQUET, Wednesday, JUNE 7!
MUSICAL NOTES
A vocal recital will be given the
latter part of May by the students of
Prof. Hultgren.
A class in music appreciation is
conducted by Theodore Tupa, every
Thursday afternoon a+. 3:30 in Room
208 in the Seminary building. Mr.
Tupa has lectured on the life of some
of the earlier masters and on their
contribution to the music of the world.
A part of each lecture also has been
devoted to a description of the sym-phony,
illustrated with records on a
victrola.
Campus Notes
Although the Academy Sophomore
class has not done much this year in
the realm of activities, they have not
entirely died out. Their interests
have been aroused in what we call a
Sophomore pow-wow. The time and
place have not been decided upon as
yet, but the class is so enthusiastic
about it that it won't be long.
Have they a system ? "I'll say,"
asserts the Sophomore reporter. A
committee of investigation made up
of Lloyd Wickstrom, Robert Rossacker
and Virgil Chamberlain have charge
of finding a good place for the event.
The executive committee has charge
of the refreshments, etc. A good time
is in store for every one.
On April 29 the Sophomore class
met to elect class officers for next
term. By a unanimous vote it was
decided that those now holding office
be re-elected since their term of office
has been so short. The officers are
as follows: Allan Johnson, president;
Carl Holmberg, vice president; Eunice
Swanson, secretary; and Ivan Sund-berg,
treasurer.
The Senior Class of the Academy
wishes to take this opportunity to
thank the members of the Junior Col-lege
Club for the entertainment given
Monday evening.
The Academy Senior Class is going
to have a picnic. The time, place,
and date are not known, but cheer up,
Seniors, you are going to get one.
Dr. Harry Noble Wilson, in his in-spiring
message to the students of all
departments last Wednesday, stressed
the beauty and the perfection of the
life of Christ, saying, "As I empha-size
the humanity of Jesus Christ, I
am not forgetting his divinity."
Another recent and interesting
speaker was Mrs. R. P. Lewis of the
Temple Baptist Church, St. Paul, who
addressed the Academy-Junior College
chapel, Saturday morning. Her mes-sage,
though brief, reached the heart
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to hold fast to their old-fashioned
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Volume XII BETHEL INSTITUTE, ST. PAUL, MINN. MAY 10, 1933
Clarion Staff Plans
Large Feature Edition
Supplement to Final Issue Will
Show Pictures of Seniors and of
Representative Organizations
An innovation in school publications
is being planned by the Clarion staff
to take the place of the Bethannual,
which for financial reasons could not
be published this year. A twelve or
sixteen page "rotogravure" supple-ment
will feature individual pictures
of the graduating students, and group
pictures of all under classes and of all
representative organizations, such as
the Student and Religious Councils,
Male Chorus, baseball and basketball
teams, debaters, and publication staff.
According to the reports from the
staff, a very attractive edition is be-ing.
planned. The pictures, although
they will be more in the newspaper
style, will be even larger and clearer,
as a whole, than those that have ap-peared
in the Bethannuals.
In order to cover overhead expenses,
which approach $300, each under-graduate
is contributing thirty-five
cents, while seniors pay fifty cents.
The school administration, which is
enthusiastic over the project. realizing
that it will serve as good advertising
for Bethel, is contributing largely to
help cover the expenses. "This will
create a sensation among school news-papers,"
said Dean Danielson, when
the plans were laid before him.
The supplement will be issued free
to all subscribers and will be sold for
the nominal price of fifteen cents a
cony to all others.
Senior Class Entertainment
Features "The Two Suns"
by English Instructor
NEGRO MALE QUARTET WILL
PROVIDE MUSICAL NUMBERS
A dialogue, "The Two Suns", writ-ten
by Professor H. C. Wingblade, will
be the main feature of the Senior
Class program which will be given on
Friday evening, May 12, in the Acad-emy
auditorium. The colored quartet
from Bethesda Baptist Church will
give special numbers and this is not
all.
The Seniors want to see all of their
friends at this entertainment. The
proceeds will be used in the purchase
of a gift for the school.
ACADEMY SENIORS GUESTS AT
JR. COLLEGE CLUB MAY PARTY
The Seniors of the Academy were
the guests of the Junior College Club
at a May party a week ago Monday
night given in the Junior College-
Academy chapel which was attractive-ly
decorated to represent a garden.
After an interesting program fea-turing
Miss Meriam Swanson, con-tralto,
and Prof. H. C. Wingblade,
principal speaker, those present had a
–ay time around the May pole which
created much interest because of its
novelty in Bethel.
SEMINARY AND B. AND
M. T. S. ANNOUNCE
VALEDICTORIANS
Walter Margaret
Watkin Anderson
Walter Watkin and Margaret
Anderson Gain Class Honors
Walter Watkin was pronounced
Valedictorian of the class graduating
from the Seminary this year. Walter
graduated from the Academy in the
spring of 1930. He has been active
in the Glee Club and other organiza-tions
of the school till he accepted the
pastorate at Grove City where his
time is now taken up in the interests
of his church.
The highest place in the Senior
Class of the Bible and Missionary
Training Department was won by
Margaret Anderson. Margaret is
president of her class, and in that
capacity has served this year on the
Seminary and B. & M. T. Student
Council. Walter also, is president of
his class and has filled the position of
Chairman of the Seminary Student
Council.
JOINT STUDENT COUNCILS
MAKE APPOINTMENTS TO
FILL STAFF POSITIONS
David Guston Elected
New Editor-in-Chief
BUSINESS STAFF CONTINUES
THROUGH NEXT SEMESTER
Appointments to fill positions on
next year's staff of the Clarion were
made last Friday at a joint meeting
of the Seminary-B. and M. T. and the
Academy-Jr. College Student Councils,
as follows: David Guston, Editor-in-
Chief; Jack Anderson, Seminary Edi-tor;
Leonard Turnquist, Jr. College;
Lois Magnuson, Academy; L a u r a
Moss, B. and M. T.; Donald Clover,
Advertising Manager; and V i r g i 1
Olson, Assistant Advertising Manager.
The position as Associate Editor
will be retained by Gertrude Liljegren
and that of Sports Editor by Andy
Boylan.
Business Staff to Change in Mid-Year
Acting upon recommendation from
the present editorial staff, the Councils
decided to have the business staff con-tinue
each year until the middle of the
school term. In this way the entire
staff will not be changed at the same
time, and consequently will not face
the problems of the year without ex-perienced
help.
However, because of the limit to be
placed upon extra-curricular participa-tion
next year, Donald Peterson was
unable to continue his position as Ad-vertising
Manager. The rest of the
business staff with Sam Wessman as
manager, and Ruth Johnson as Circu-lation
Manager with Franklin Nelson,
Assistant, will continue until the end
of the first semester next year.
English Professor Ordained
Central Baptist
Church Offici-ally
Sets Seal
Upon the Pub-lic
Ministry of
H. C. Wing-blade
Prof H. C.
Wingblade'susu-al
conciseness and
comprehensive-ness
marked his
statements at the
ordination service
held Friday, Apr. Prof. H. C. Wingblade
28, at the Central Baptist Church.
Mr. Wingblade was presented by
the Rev. Eric Anderson, pastor of the
church, after which Dr. Hagstrom,
moderator, called upon the candidate
to relate his call to the ministry.
Converted at the age of nine, he
was baptized at the age of seventeen
at the stroke of midnight in the Swed-
Baptist Church at Topeka, Kan-sas.
From then on he was active in
church work, serving as Young Peo-ple's
president, Sunday-school teacher,
choir director, and usher.
While at college, he was invited to
preach by one of his college profes-sors,
but he refused at the time to do
so. "Yet every time I heard my pastor
preach, I felt deep, in my heart that
that was what I wanted to do."
After Prof. Wingblade came to
Bethel as teacher, Dr. Gordh sent him
out to preach. Ever since then, he
has been busy in the Lord's service
preaching the unsearchable riches of
Christ.
Before he began his doctrinal state-ment,
Mr. Wingblade paid a beautiful
tribute to his mother, saying, "The
observance of the family altar was a
daily occurrence in our home, and
mother showed us the way of salva-tion."
The council, after hearing the candi-date's
presentation, highly recom-mended
his ordination. Dr. Hagstrom,
at the evening service, delivered the
ordination sermon.
BETHEL'S PROSPECTS
HOPEFUL, DR. HAGSTROM
DECLARES
Speaks to Large Group of Young
People at May Day Festivity
"Although financial prospects are
not altogether encouraging for our
school, I really think Bethel's finances
are in better shape than most Chris-tian
institutions of which I know," de-clared
Dr. Hagstrom last Friday after-noon
upon his return from a week's
visit to Chicago, where he attended
the monthly meeting of the Mission-ary
Department of the General Con-ference
of which he is executive secre-tary.
Besides fulfilling several executive
engagements, Dr. Hagstrom spoke in
the Swedish language to a large group
of young people who had met for a
semi-patriotic festivity after the old
Swedish custom, commemorating
"Valborgsmassa" or May Day.
Dr. Hagstrom also released some in-teresting
statistics, not previously
published, concerning the Swedish
Baptist Conference, which made a net
gain in membership of 568 during the
year closing December 31, 1932. The
total membership is now 35,176, the
highest in the history of the Confer-ence.
Total receipts for religious pur-poses
during the year amounted to
$861,190.33, or $24.20 per capita.
MAYOR ANDERSON GIVES
INSPIRING ADDRESS
Present Crisis of Christian
Education Analyzed
by Dr. Ray York
Messages by Mayor Anderson and
Dr. Ray York and special vocal num-bers.
by Prof. Floyd Jones were the
special features on the Annual Visi-tor's
Day program, last Saturday,
May 6. Large crowds attended the
meetings.
Mayor Anderson of Minneapolis,
staunch Christian political leader,
gave a brief but inspiring address in
the afternoon. He said in effect, "We
live in strenuous times. No genera-tion
has seen its counterpart." The
Mayor said he opposed the beer bill
because as a member of the bar asso-ciation
and as mayor of a city he had
taken an oath to uphold the constitu-tion
of our country.
The keynote of his speech was—"Men
of convictions that are founded upon
principles is the great need of today."
He stressed the need for people to
take a deeper interest in 'government.
"The church is the only organization
that upholds the fundamentals of the
Christian faith. Are we to gird up
our loins or sit idly by and watch the
destructive forces tear down our gov-ernment
and civilization ?" He was
accorded a hearty ovation as he left
the platform.
Dr. York Speaks at Evening Gathering
A group of tenor solos was given by
Prof. Floyd Jones of the Minnesota
Bible University, at the opening of
the evening program. His character-istic
presentation of the numbers was
gratefully received by the audience.
With bold, swift strokes, Dr. Ray
York sketched the "Present Crisis in
Christian Education" as he sees it.
First he dealt with some of the facts,
calling to the attention of his listeners
that this crisis was not brought on by
the depression; but by the "marvel-ous
mushroom growth of universal
education in our country"; by the corn-ing
of the machine age; and by edu-cation,
the child of the church, being
adopted by the state. We have today
a great state educational system de-void
of religious' instruction, and in
our modern program it is difficult to
find time for that instruction in the
home and in the church. "I am not
sure but that the present public edu-cational
system will wreck our coun-try."
The Christian College has the prob-lem
of the content of its curriculum,
it being unable to compete with State
Universities because of limited funds.
Since the purpose of the Colleeg is
the "development of mental capacity",
Dr. York believed that the Christian
College should offer only a Liberal
Arts course upon which to "grind our
minds to keenness," leaving general-izations
to the Universities. "The
Bethel Junior College is the greatest
step forward that the Swedish Bap-tists
have made since the founding
of the Seminary — but you are still
lacking two years," said Dr. York.
Then he touched upon other problems,
ending with a vision of the Swedish
Baptist denomination and its educa-tional
system ten years hence.
VISITORS' DAY ATTRACTS CROWDS
Think On These Things
By Esther Sabel
"It is not so often a whole sermon as a single short
sentence in it that wings God's arrow to a heart. It is
seldom a whole conversation that is the means of bringing
about the desired result, but some sudden turn of thought
or word, which comes with the electric touch of God's
power. Sometimes it is less than that; only a look (and
what is more momentary?) has been used by Him for the
pulling down of strongholds. Again, in our own quiet
waiting upon God, as moment after moment glides past
in the silence of His feet, the eye resting upon a page of
His Word, or only looking up to Him through the dark-ness,
have we not found that He can so irradiate one pass-ing
moment with His light that its rays never die away,
but shine on and on through days and years?
"While we have been undervaluing these fractions of
eternity, what has our gracious God been doing in them?
How strangly touching are the words. 'What is man, that
Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him. and that Thou
shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every
moment?' Terribly solemn and awful would be the
thought that He has been trying us every moment, were
it not for the yearning gentleness and love of the Father
revealed in that wonderful expression of wonder, 'What
is man, that Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him?'
Think of that ceaseless setting of His heart upon us, care-less
and forgetful children as we have been! And then
think of those other words, none the less literally true
because given under a figure: 'I, the Lord, do keep it; I
will water it every moment.' "
—Frances Ridley Havergal.
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Page Two THE BETHEL CLARION
May 10, 1933
Mrs. Anna M. Swedberg
Mrs. Anna M. Swedberg this year
completes her fifteenth year as a
member of the faculty of Bethel. She
has proved herself to be a thorough
teacher, anxious that her pupils shall
learn not only the rudiments of the
subject which they are studying, but
that they shall learn to know Him
"whom to know is life eternal", in
order that they may leave Bethel as
men and women who will be an influ-ence
for good in the world.
Mrs. Swedberg received her high
school and college training in Minne-sota.
After earning the degree of
bachelor of science, she taught in
Minnesota schools for a number of
years before her marriage. Following
the death of her husband, Mrs. Swed-berg
again took up teaching. She ac-cepted
a call to Adelphia College in
Seattle where she taught for eight
years. She was also instructor for
one year in the Seattle Pacific College.
Mrs. Swedberg has had the unusual
experience of teaching the rudiments
of English grammar, idioms, and pro-nunciation
to many foreign born stu-dents.
She has taught English not
only to those who came to Bethel
directly from Sweden, but to three
Russian girls, fugitives of the Soviet
government, as well as to Chinese
students at Adelphia College.
For about two years Mrs. Swedberg
was assistant editor of "Banneret",
forerunner of Svenska Standaret. She
is a fluent writer, and artciles from
her pen have appeared from time to
time. One of her addresses on
"Heroines" was published in booklet
form while she was at Adelphia Col-lege.
Mrs. Swedberg has ever shown her
interest in definite Christian service,
teaching Sunday school classes and
speaking at young people's and church
meetings whenever opportunity is
given. She has always been ready to
take part in the services of the many
churches she has had opportunity to
visit during the summer months, and
has conducted a number of Daily
Vacation Bible Schools and Bible In-stitutes
during the vacation.
To be alive in such an age—
To live to it,
To give to it!
What if thy lips have drunk the lees ?
Fling forth thy sorrow to the wind—
And link thy hope with human kind.
The passion of a larger claim
Will put thy puny grief to shame.
Breathe the world thought, do the
world deed,
Think hugely of thy brother's need.
And thy woe, and what thy weal?
Look to the work the times reveal!
Give thanks with all thy flaming
heart—
Crave but to have in it a part.
Give thanks and clasp thy heritage—
To be alive in such an age.
—Angela Morgan.
"We know nothing of business to-morrow;
our business is to be good
and happy today."—S. Smith.
"No flattery is so deadly as that
which we offer to ourselves."
"A person's life is just like iron;
if it is used, it becomes bright and
shiny; if it is left idle, it becomes
rusty."—H. Miller.
"Better not to be at all than not to
be noble."—Tennyson.
THE BETHEL CLARION Who's Who
Official School Paper
of Bethel Institute pub-lished
every third week
by the students.
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 N. Snelling Ave.,
St. Paul, Minn.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Albert Bergfalk Editor-in-Chief
Gertrude Liljegren Associate Editor
Andrew Boylan Sports Editor
Department Editors
Gertrude Liljegren Junior College
Leonore Nyhagen Academy
Marian Berglund . Seminary
Laura Moss Missionary Training
Reporters
Charlotte Miller Eunice Swanson Edna Lundgren
Lois Magnuson . Olav Norsted
Typists
Myrtle Nastlund Marian Berglund
BUSINESS STAFF
Clarice Wessman Business Manager
Donald Peterson Advertising Manager
Ruth Johnson Circulation Manager
Advertising Solicitors
Vern Wessman Earl Anderson Lloyd Wickstrom
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Esther Sabel Faculty Adviser
Editorial
Bethel has by popular demand of the students
revived a sport that has long been neglected at
Bethel ; namely, baseball.
As the team is composed entirely of new mate-rial,
it was expected to have a rather hard time
playing against the other more experienced teams
in the league, but Coach Ryman has been working
faithfully the last four weeks to get them into
shape for their first game which they played last
Wednesday.
Those who had an opportunity of witnessing
the game saw their team go down in defeat
against one of the veteran teams in the league.
but they also saw something else. They saw their
team from the first to the last inning play the
game with true sportsmanship.
After all, this is the real object of contests
between schools, to teach the player to win or lose
in the same gentlemanly manner. And we feel
that we are safe in saying that as long as the
team follows the policy of playing each game with
a fighting spirit and in a sportsmanlike manner,
win or lose, the student body will be solidly behind
it.
V V V V
The Palms
In our chapel this spring something of interest
is happening which has perhaps not been noticed.
We have all seen the palms that grace the plat-form
and we wish to express our appreciation to
the senior class of '32 for these beautiful plants,
which is their gift to the school.
But there is something else very interesting
which no class has given, the new sprouts on the
tops of the palms, which are gifts from God. It
is interesting to note how nature works in these
plants. First of all small buds appeared low in
the plants. These buds opened into flat growths
which became taller and taller, until they devel-oped
little sprouts or leaves. Then little by little
they have raised their tops toward the heavens ;
until now they are nearly as large as the older
leaves.
We will all be watching them grow, ever being
reminded that God works in all processes of life.
The Book Corner
By H. C. Wingblade
For the sake of a happy change, I wish to talk
this time about a book the title of which would be
FAITH BY INDUCTION. The fact of it is that the
book has not yet been published, nor indeed may it
ever be as such, but I have heard the author de-scribe
the contents of the manuscript.
It is the story of growing faith. It is an account
of answers to. prayer. It shows forth the rising tide
of continuous trust, in daily recorded form. It re-veals
how one experience with faith and prayer after
the other slowly builds up that faith until it becomes
a Gibraltar of strength almost identical with knowl-edge.
In brief, then, the author records each experience
of answers to prayer through the passing years,
which is after all the exact method that science uses
in building up important conclusions. The result of
all this recording is a long list of blessed experiences
with God. One dark day comes when all seems
black and hopeless. Faith seems sped. God does
not exist. Prayer seems altogether futile. But just
before the heart surrenders utterly to despair, the
author bethinks himself of his book. With tear-stained
eyes he gleans its pages. God has been true,
He has been faithful ninety-nine times. He will
surely be faithful in the hundredth. "I know whom
I have believed."
As I said, the book is not in print yet, nor may
it ever be. Possibly the contents are too private and
too sacred. But the beauty of it all is that you and
I can write such a book ourselves. There is a way
of building up faith by the inductive method.
Much Ado .. -15
Disrespect
Those who have learned to love Dr. Gordh and find his
Bible Course a spiritual feast have been deeply pained by
those thoughtless, selfish individuals who burst into class
several minutes late each morning, and by the persistent
buzz of conversation which gives way only when the roll
has been partly taken. The disturbance is trivial when
compared to the gross disrespect shown our beloved
teacher—a disrespect that sears deep wounds into a tender
heart. That these thoughtless people reveal a sad lack
in appreciation of spiritual values must only add to the
hurt. One finds it hard to believe in the sincerity of those
who hurt others—and in those who are not fascinated
enough by Dr. Gordh's Bible lectures to prevent tardiness
to class, especially when they live in the dormitory in the
same building.
—Pained.
Falling in Love
What an interesting subject and oh, how natural. One
of the most enjoyable phases of school life is the friend-ship
of those who become endeared to us, whether they be
boys or girls,—and very often students become very fond
of one another. This is a perfectly normal procedure and
sometimes very beautiful. These are small matters, but
meaningful, which make us attractive or repulsive to the
outside circles. However, a little bit of care, a little bit
of good taste, some aesthetic sense will make a school
courtship a thing of beauty.
—A Word to the Wise.
May 10, 1933 THE BETHEL CLARION Page Three
SPORTS
LANGUAGE CLASSES VISIT
NEW SWEDISH INSTITUTE
The Swedish classes, under the lead-ership
of Miss Alice Johnson, visited
the new American Institute of Swed-ish
Sciences, Literature, and Arts in
Minneapolis on Tuesday, April 25.
This building, erected about thirty
years ago by Swan J. Turnblad, pub-lisher
of the Svenska-Ameriksnska
Posten, at the cost of a million dollars
for his private home, was given to this
society as a center for Swedish cul-ture.
The house contains many interest-ing
features such as beautifully and
intricately carved woodwork, which
took fourteen men two years to com-plete;
"kakelugnar", a sort of enclosed
fireplace, used in Sweden years ago to
heat the rooms; and a stained glass
window which is reproduced from a
painting of "The Sack of Visby."
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Wednesday, May 10—
Baseball, Bethel at Concordia-3:30
p. m.
Oratorical Contest, Seminary Chapel
—8:00 p. m.
Wednesday, May 17—
Seminary Banquet.
Friday, May 19—
Baseball, Bethel at New Ulm.
Saturday, May 20—
Academy Junior-Senior Banquet.
Saturday, May 27—
Baseball, New Ulm at Bethel-3:30
p. m.
Athletic Banquet, 6:30 p. m.
Wednesday, May 31—
Alexis "Bible and Missionary Train-ing
evening."
Combined-choir Concert—Alliance
Tabernacle (Tentative).
Sunday, June 4—
Baccalaureate Service, Central Bap-tist
Church, 7:30 p. m. Rev. Fritz
Hamlin, Preacher.
Wednesday, June 7—
Academy Alumni Banquet.
Thursday, June 8—
Class Day.
B. and M. T. S. Alumni Fellowship
Supper-6:30 p. m.
Friday, June 9—
Graduation Exercises.
Wise and Otherwise
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for water?"
Dorothy Sawyer: "HIJKLMNO."
Prof. Nordstrom : "What do you
mean?"
Dorothy: "Well, you said it was
H•0."
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Rudolph Skanse: "What is your
favorite book ?"
George Bauer: "It's always been my
bank book, but even that lacks inter-est
for me now."
Housewife (to subscription sales-man):
"No, we don't want no maga-zines.
No, we don't want no nothin'."
Salesman: "How about a cheap
grammer ?"
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teller and he told me I would
suffer poverty until I was fifty years
old."
Lloyd Wick str om : "And then
what?"
Spencer: "I'd be used to it."
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Clifford Dickau: "Our professor
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Harry Selin: "Yes, but he doesn't
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The loose fielding in the early
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runs. Luther collected eleven hits off
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Linder's two-base hit was the best
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Editor of Denominational
Paper Speaks at Seminary
J. 0. BACKLUND GIVES TWO
LECTURES ON JOURNALISM
J. 0. Backlund, Editor-in-Chief of
the literary publications of the Swed-ish
Baptist Denomination, gave two
lectures on Journalism to students in
the Seminary chapel, Thursday and
Friday, April 20 and 21.
Thursday he outlined briefly the
history of the Conference Press from
the time of the first publication edited
by J. Alexis Edgren down to the pres-ent
enlarged system, with the press
now publishing several English papers
besides the Svenska Standaret. He
continued on Friday by explaining the
details in the mechanism of the press,
the linotype machine and the compos-ing
room. He enumerated the require-ments
of articles submitted for pub-lication
and the reasons for eliminat-ing
certain manuscripts. His helpful
suggestions were beneficial for those
who will eventually be contributors to
the literature of Swedish Baptists in
the future.
GLEE CLUB WILL VISIT
ISANTI COUNTY AND MORA
The Bethel Glee Club is planning a
week-end trip into Isanti county which
will conclude the activities for the
season. Under present arrangements
the club will sing at the Stanchfield
church on Friday night the 12th and
it is expected that a concert will be
given at North Isanti. Sunday after-noon
they will visit Mora and Sunday
evening Cambridge.
Last Thursday, May 4, the club
sang in the Lake Park Baptist church
at a concert sponsored by the men's
club.
The club this year has had a profit-able
season and all interest and sup-port
shown has been much appreci-ated.
Among the Grads
This year, 1933, marks the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the first com-mencement
of Bethel Academy. Here
is a greeting from the first principal:
"Time is a feathered thing." Twenty-five
years have gone since Bethel
Academy sent forth its first gradu-ates.
They were only two, but the
quality was good. We feel indebted
to them for their loyalty to our cause
in the days of small beginnings. Both
have been, and both are, an honor to
Bethel, and on this anniversary we
send them our greeting and bid them
Godspeed.
ARVID GORDH.
A member of the first graduating
class of two students, writes the fol-lowing:
Dear Alumnus:
It is twenty-five years or a quarter
of a century since we, Leonard Palm-quist
and myself, left Bethel. I am
sure we must feel like grand-daddies.
Still, since Old Father Time keeps
records that cannot be questioned and
at the same time is no respecter of
persons, it must be so,—a quarter of
a century since we two left.
How easily and naturally memory
glides back to the days of small be-ginnings.
One would neither despise
nor forget them. The happy days at
the Elim Church, with Logan Park as
our playground and an utter lack of
equipment of any sort. Our only ex-perimental
laboratory work was in
the basement chopping wood to feed
the furnace. On the other hand we
were given Latin and Greek in big
doses.
However, what we lacked in mate-rial
equipment was made up by a
richness of personality that made our
loss nothing but gain. Who can ever
forget the captivating presence of the
beloved pastor of the church, Rev.
V. E. Hedberg. As a matter of fact,
we were but as children taken in by
all the Twin City churches. Then,
there was the personality of one
whose very presence enriched our
lives. He moved amongst us with a
quiet, unassuming dignity, unaffected
and natural. He had that indefinable
influence of a preeminent personality
that pervades an institution by his
very presence. We left the school
back in 1908 with the feeling that our
years at Bethel, though lacking in
many material things, nevertheless
had fully rewarded us because of our
contact with him. Of course we speak
of Dr. Arvid Gordh.
Who will not recall our Literary
Society and one of our meetings at
Dr. Gordh's home ? One of our de-baters
for the first time is to make
his bow as a public speaker. He gets
up, opens his mouth, says nothing, sits
down, and "poor me" has to substi-tute.
Or when one of the students
wished to indulge in the luxury of a
Finnish steam bath and we gave him
one of snow. Or the other extreme,
when late into the night a young man
was prayed into the Kingdom. Oh,
yes, we played and we worked; we
laughed and we wept. For it all we
have become better men and women.
No regrets and no apologies for those
days of long ago.
Sincerely yours.
C. G. TIDEMAN.
Wednesday, June 7, is the day set
for the Bethel Academy Alumni Ban-quet.
As this is our Silver Anniver-sary
celebration it will be an event of
particular interest to every graduate
of Bethel. Watch for further public-ity
regarding place of meeting and
special features.
PLAN TO COME!
Congratulations to Esther Antonson
and Evelyn Skocglun, both graduates
of Bethel Academy, who are members
of the Mounds-Midway class to gradu-ate
May 12.
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon John-son
of Red Wing, Minnesota, announce
the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Ann,
born April 21.
Roger Dwight Moberg arrived at
the home of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs.
David N. Moberg of Seattle, Washing-ton
on April 22.
Thora Johnson, who has been con-fined
to the Trudeau Sanitarium for
the past two years, has now returned
to her home where she will continue
her cure. Her address is now 104
Porter Street, Providence, R. I.
Emily Satterberg is spending a few
days in and near the Twin Cities on
her way back to her field in Africa.
She has a long list of speaking en-gagements
to fill before leaving this
country, among them a request from
the American Baptist Foreign Mission
Society to speak at the meeting of
the Northern Baptist Convention at
Washington, D. C. We join in wish-ing
Miss Satterberg Godspeed.
BETHEL ACADEMY ALUMNI
BANQUET, Wednesday, JUNE 7!
MUSICAL NOTES
A vocal recital will be given the
latter part of May by the students of
Prof. Hultgren.
A class in music appreciation is
conducted by Theodore Tupa, every
Thursday afternoon a+. 3:30 in Room
208 in the Seminary building. Mr.
Tupa has lectured on the life of some
of the earlier masters and on their
contribution to the music of the world.
A part of each lecture also has been
devoted to a description of the sym-phony,
illustrated with records on a
victrola.
Campus Notes
Although the Academy Sophomore
class has not done much this year in
the realm of activities, they have not
entirely died out. Their interests
have been aroused in what we call a
Sophomore pow-wow. The time and
place have not been decided upon as
yet, but the class is so enthusiastic
about it that it won't be long.
Have they a system ? "I'll say,"
asserts the Sophomore reporter. A
committee of investigation made up
of Lloyd Wickstrom, Robert Rossacker
and Virgil Chamberlain have charge
of finding a good place for the event.
The executive committee has charge
of the refreshments, etc. A good time
is in store for every one.
On April 29 the Sophomore class
met to elect class officers for next
term. By a unanimous vote it was
decided that those now holding office
be re-elected since their term of office
has been so short. The officers are
as follows: Allan Johnson, president;
Carl Holmberg, vice president; Eunice
Swanson, secretary; and Ivan Sund-berg,
treasurer.
The Senior Class of the Academy
wishes to take this opportunity to
thank the members of the Junior Col-lege
Club for the entertainment given
Monday evening.
The Academy Senior Class is going
to have a picnic. The time, place,
and date are not known, but cheer up,
Seniors, you are going to get one.
Dr. Harry Noble Wilson, in his in-spiring
message to the students of all
departments last Wednesday, stressed
the beauty and the perfection of the
life of Christ, saying, "As I empha-size
the humanity of Jesus Christ, I
am not forgetting his divinity."
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speaker was Mrs. R. P. Lewis of the
Temple Baptist Church, St. Paul, who
addressed the Academy-Junior College
chapel, Saturday morning. Her mes-sage,
though brief, reached the heart
of each student as she exhorted them
to hold fast to their old-fashioned
faith and religion.
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the. students to know that Dave
Guston designed the attractive decora-tions
for the May party given in honor
of the Academy seniors. The beauti-ful
scene in the front was a product
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